Upgrade ArcGIS Enterprise
- Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
- Josh Hevenor (Unlicensed)
Overview
The ESRI PowerShell for DSC project support upgrades as well as installs. The steps required to put this into practice will follow.
Related doc here
ESRI Powershell DSC has a new version - ArcGIS 2.1.1
Process
Ensure backup exists
Update the ARM template parameters to ensure the CSE will copy the new install media
Increase
timestampor remove CSE extension from VMs
Run ARM template to ensure proper infrastructure config and to re-run the Custom Scripts Extensions.
CSE will copy new install media and DSC templates
CSE will ensure the current ArcGIS PowerShell module is installed
Create a DSC upgrade template from the original deployment template
Remote desktop to WEB0 as user \egisadmin
Copy this template to the WEB0 VM and ensure that all passwords and paths are correct
Remote desktop to WEB0 as user cloud\argisservice
Handle multiple versions of the ArcGIS PowerShell Module
May need to update the ArcGIS PowerShell module
Get-InstalledModule -Name "ArcGIS" -RequiredVersion 1.1.3 | Uninstall-Module
Run the script as follows as the cloud\arcgisservice user
If there are auto-shutdown configurations in place and this script is starting late in the day then it may be prudent to disable auto-shutdown (Check tags and VM auto-shutdown settings)
# Powershell
Configure-ArcGIS `
-ConfigurationParametersFile 'D:\DSC\PowerShell DSC\some_upgrade_config.json `
-Mode Upgrade
# Optional
-Credential [Config RunAs - Optional]
-DebugSwitch FalseWait for completion
Post-Upgrade
Quick tests
Portal loads
Log in
Server valid according to Portal > Organization > Settings > Servers
Data store valid according to Server > Site > Data Stores
Created new hosted layer from CSV
Confirm Basemaps
Go into the Org settings, click the Map tab, check Share the Esri default basemaps to this group when you click Save, select Raster Basemaps, and click Save.
To fix the CAHS symbols, we should invoke the ConfigureCAHSSymbols script against the environment
TODO- better wording?Remove and re-add custom print templates
Past upgrades
DEV2020-01-13 Upgrade DEV to 10.7.1STG2020-01-14 Update STG to 10.7.1